Dr. Malik who is closest to me here.
OR. MALIK:
Three areas.
One on hotspots.
The work reported on at
this meeting by EG&G for the Surface Nuclear Report Office and REECo has
done much to clarify the so-called hotspot designation in the observed
fallout patterns.
In particular, the famous BOLTZMANN hotspot, which had
no plausible explanation, now appears to be nonexistent.
the environs of the NTS have also little credibility.
definition could be established,
Many others in
If a quantitative
more might disappear from the patterns.
Such might be established in consideration of the variability of exposures
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established
along
the hotline.
The
variables
might
include
ll
effects, variability of the particle size distribution, wind shears, and so
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forth.
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note the hotspots are,
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SIMON
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fallout patterns are probably complete with high level hotspots unlikely.
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Analysis, however, was not completed.
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to agree with the limited data base but with large error voids.
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a long way to go.
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the effort.
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concern about mechanical
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warranted.
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These
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progress.
<A limited effort on this description might be useful.
and
data
indeed, real.
SMALL BOY.
Examples are:
terrain
One should
TRINITY, HOROSHIMA,
The NURE data seemed to say that the historical
On pathways, the work to date seems
They have
On soil] sampling, this is a very essential study area in
Work seems to be proceeding well but is only started.
My
concentration of fallout does not seem to be
This from a comparison of the recent versus the Larson samples.
will
be
of
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CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
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DR. CALDWELL:
great
interest.
We
have
seen
some
impressive
Dr. Caldwell.
He has already hit one of mine.
One of the things that
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I'd thought about when we were looking at some of the reports and at the
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same time talking about the CIC was I think that DAAG needs to consider
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whether or not the funds shortfall for the CIC, particularly for keyword
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